Asma Jahangir

Asma Jahangir
Jahangir in 2010
United Nations Special Rapporteur-designate for Human Rights in Iran
Taking office November 2016
Succeeding	Ahmed Shaheed
President of Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan
In office 27 October 2010 – 31 October 2012
Preceded by	Qazi Anwar
Head of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
In office 1987–2011
Personal details
Born	Asma Jilani January 1952 (age 64) Lahore, Punjab province, West-Pakistan (now-Pakistan)
Nationality	Pakistani
Children	1 son and 2 daughters
Residence	Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT)
Alma mater	London School of Economics (external) Punjab University (LL.B.) Kinnaird College (BA) University of St. Gallen (JSD)
Profession	Lawyer
Religion	Islam
Awards	Hilal-i-Imtiaz (2010) Martin Ennals Award (1995) Ramon Magsaysay Award Leo Eitinger Award (2002) Four Freedoms Award (2010) alternative nobel

Asma Jilani Jahangir (Urdu: عاصمہ جہانگیر‎, translit. ʿĀṣimah Jahāṉgīr; born 27 January 1952 in Lahore) is a Pakistani human rights lawyer and activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. She is widely known for playing a prominent role in the Lawyers' Movement and serves as the trustee at the International Crisis Group.

As an activist, Jahangir was imprisoned in 1983 for participating in the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy against the military regime of Zia-ul-Haq. She was again put under house arrest in November 2007 after the imposition of 2007 Pakistani martial law. After serving as one of the leaders of the Lawyers' Movement, she became Pakistan's first woman to serve as the President of Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan.

She has co-chaired South Asia Forum for Human Rights and was the vice president of International Federation for Human Rights. She served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief from August 2004 to July 2010. She also served on the U.N. panel for inquiry into Sri Lankan human rights violations by the Sri Lankan authorities.